limes

From Latin līmes.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlʌɪmiːz/

limes (plural limites)

1. A boundary or border, especially of the Roman Empire.
   • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 92:

     Their presence in the late fourth century on the River Main (immediately to the east of the Roman limes) is documented in Roman sources, as are their wars with the Alemanni.

Inflected forms.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lʌɪmz/
• Rhymes: -aɪmz

limes

1. plural of lime

• Imels, Liems, Miles, miles, milse, misle, slime, smile

limes c

1. genitive singular indefinite of lime
2. plural indefinite of lime
3. genitive plural indefinite of lime

limes

1. (mathematics) limit, used mainly to read out formulas.

   ${\displaystyle \lim _{x\to c}}$ reads: limes x lähenee c:tä.

• raja-arvo

• IPA^(key): /lim/

limes f

1. plural of lime

limes

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of limar

From līmus (“askew”). See also līmen.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.mes/, [ˈliː.mɛs]

līmes m (genitive līmitis); third declension

1. limit, border, path.

Third declension.

• līmitāneus

Inflection of līmō (“sharpen, file”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.meːs/

līmēs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of līmō

Inflection of līmō (“besmirch”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.meːs/

līmēs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of līmō

• limes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• limes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• limes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• limes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

limes

1. passive of lime

limes

1. second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of limar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of limar

• IPA^(key): /ˈlimes/

limes

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of limar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of limar.